The eQSL verification system has holes you could drive a truck through. I have dozens of "eQSL's" from stations I've never worked, one of them from a COUNTRY I've never worked! 73, de Hans, K0HB ~~~~
Someone asked me to post this site on this site. I previously posted it on Towertalk. It is all about how your safety harness can kill you...pretty scary stuff! http://www.cdc.gov/elcosh/docs/d0500/d
After having kicked some butt in the last NAQP SSB as an east coast station, it looks like I will not even make the top ten for this one. The West coast DOES have an advantage in this one like they d
My point was that in most DX Contests, the Northeast will dominate, and in most domestic contests the west will dominate. There will be exceptions for both cases, but they are in the minority of cour
No matter how you slice it, the West coast does have an overall advantage in NAQP. You will never find an NAQP without a pretty good number of west coast stations represented in the top ten, even if
In a message dated 1/31/04 5:08:20 AM Greenwich Standard Time, ns3t@arrl.net writes: "Responses from Spirit's balky computers are slow . . in some cases 10 to 40 bits per second . . said James Ericks
In a message dated 2/2/04 3:09:06 PM Greenwich Standard Time, k3ft@starpower.net writes: He walked down with me to the waiting area and we had a nice ragchew/eyeball before my boarding call came. He
1. I don't get the idea of doing it on 6 10 and 15. I want to work a Sprint with some rate, not a VHF contest. There's some consistency with propagation on the currently used bands....de K7SV I agree
I thought I was the only one who thought this...that's likely the main reason I don't operate it. That, and the QSY rule really sucks on SSB...de AA4GA The rule is a good one and is what makes the Sp
I think K6LL is right on the money about high band categories for DX contests. The average Joe tribander guy cannot be competitive on 40 and 80. I really wish the DARC would reinstate the 20/1510 cat
I too, am one of the old farts. I'll be 58 next September and did my last 48 hour contest back in 2001. I believe I took off a total of two hours. Leave the 48 hour contests as 48 hours. It is truly
I use the analogy of Tampa Stadium filled up on Friday night with 70,000 people from all over the world who are going to be there for 48 hours. I explain that they will all participate in this "conte
I'm not penalizing broadcast stations that sit on one frequency making 100 Q's per hour; their year-to-year scoring would not be changed. I'm suggesting that non-CQing stations should receive 2x poin
In a message dated 4/1/04 5:47:11 PM Greenwich Standard Time, barry@mxg.com writes: Throwing money at towers and amps and multiple radios so you can broadcast CQ 6 times a minute; where's the operato
How do we know that packet cheating is rampant? Who got away with it? What evidence do we have? Which contest's pecking order has been substantially or even minimally affected by packet cheating?....
The wife and I are heading off to the wilds of the great white north and the land of the midnight sun. We expect to be in the above areas around the middle of June and would like to stop by for a qui
In a message dated 4/4/04 2:02:14 PM Greenwich Standard Time, ct1boh@sapo.pt writes: If we abstract the rules issue prohibiting more than 1.5kw out, why is it OK to build big antennas but it is not O
In a message dated 4/4/04 4:58:46 PM Greenwich Standard Time, gerry@w1ve.com writes: Name-calling about who runs power is not. Identify cheaters and root them out -- don't name call and provide innue
Yup, lots of times my rate gets a big bump when I am spotted and I am only a lowly K4. it's fun to go back after the contest and check DXSummit to see where the "bumps" took place as a result of the
In a message dated 5/8/04 2:17:24 PM Greenwich Standard Time, k4ww@arrl.net writes: Isn't contesting supposed to be fun? I know of very few things, that I consider difficult, that I have fun doing! I